Ed’s Blog

Adam Creighton devoted his column in The Australian this morning to ridiculing the Women’s Budget Statement.

The labour of hope so often falls on women. Sarah Wilson argues we should reach for something else: acceptance that collapse is happening.

Dave Hughes isn’t some fringe commentator shaking his fist at the clouds. He has a huge platform & profile which he’s using dangerously.

Beware the women. We’re an easy common enemy for otherwise disparate groups on the right. The US trend is catching on in Australia.

Don’t let (slight) improvements in the number of women on corporate boards in Australia lure you into believing these boards are achieving the diversity needed for improved decision-making.

Everyone’s talking about Japan’s youngest female mayor daring to announce that she’ll be taking maternity leave.

A drug for breast cancer and endometriosis is being pulled from Australia; its higher dose version, PBS-approved for prostate cancer, is staying.

Despite what Lisa Jane Spencer’s defenders will inevitably argue, this isn’t a debate about whether comedy should be allowed to offend. It’s about whether what Spencer’s doing actually constitutes comedy.

We still haven’t grappled with what happens when one woman is trying to sustain a household alone, writes Tarla Lambert-Patel.

Most mothers who had a child since 2020 feel lonely. Few feel part of a “village”. Here’s what we learned from hundreds of mothers.

Julie Inman Grant calls it “outragement”: the addictive, pull-you-in content across social media. The eSafety Commissioner knows it’s tough for adults to resist, so what hope do kids have?

There will be more spent on offshore detention in one year than new spending addressing violence against women over next 4 years.